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Scientific
Advisory Board
Dr.
Bruce N. Ames, Ph.D.
(Founder, Director, and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory
Board) is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at
the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ames is also Senior
Scientist, Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research
Institute. He is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences and he was on their Commission on Life Sciences.
He was a member of the board of directors of the National Cancer
Institute, the National Cancer Advisory Board, from 1976 to 1982.
He was the recipient of a leading award for cancer research,
the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Prize (1983), a leading
award in environmental achievement, the Tyler Prize (1985), the
Gold Medal Award of the American Institute of Chemists (1991),
the Glenn Foundation Award of the Gerontological Society of America
(1992), and the Lovelace Institutes Award for Excellence in Environmental
Health Research (1995), the Achievement in Excellence Award of
the Center for Excellence in Education (1996), the Honda Prize
of the Honda Foundation, Japan (1996), the Japan Prize, (1997),
and the Kehoe Award, American College of Occupational and Environmental
Med. (1997), the Medal of the City of Paris (1998), the Joseph
Priestley Award (1998), and the U.S. National Medal of Science
(1998). His over 400+ publications have resulted in his being among
the few hundred most-cited scientists in all fields: 23rd most
cited (1973-1984).
Professor Ames has been the international leader in the field
of mutagenesis and genetic toxicology for over 20 years. His work
has had a major impact on, and changed the direction of, basic
and applied research on mutation, cancer, and aging. The development
of the Ames mutagenicity test as a practical tool for the detection
of potential carcinogens has led to its use in over 3000 laboratories
and in all of the major drug and chemical companies, where it has
had a major influence in weeding out mutagenic chemicals while
it is cheap to do so and before they are introduced into commerce.
Dr. Ames' current research focuses on the oxidative damage to DNA
and its relationship to mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and the degenerative
diseases of aging. His main interest is in the prevention of cancer
and other degenerative diseases of aging.

Dr.
M. Flint Beal, M.D.
is professor and chairman of the department of neurology
and neuroscience at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University
and Neurologist-in- Chief at the New York-Cornell campus of New
York Presbyterian Hospital.
Previously, Dr. Beal was professor of neurology at Harvard Medical
School was chief of the neurochemistry laboratory and director
of the clinical trials unit in the department of neurology at Massachusetts
General Hospital (MGH). He received his medical degree from the
University of Virginia in 1976 and did his internship and first-year
residency in medicine at New York-Cornell before beginning his
residency in neurology at MGH. He joined the neurology faculty
at Harvard in 1983.
Dr. Beal has authored some 350 articles, book chapters and peer
reviews on topics such as oxidative damage in Alzheimer's and mitochondria
research in Parkinsonian patients. He serves on the editorial boards
of the Journal of Neurochemistry, the Annals of Neurology, Molecular
and Chemical Neuropathology, the Alzheimer's Disease Review and
the Journal of Contemporary Neurology.
His research has focused on the mechanisms of neuronal degeneration
in Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease,
and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He has also been working
on the development of novel neurochemical assays for assessing
oxidative damage for use in clinical trials of new therapies for
these disorders.

Dr.
Ervin Epstein, Jr., M.D.
is a leading Dermatologist whose research interests have
focused on the molecular biology of inherited and neoplastic
skin diseases. Dr. Epstein is also a frequent speaker and leading
writer with papers that have appeared in New England Journal
of Medicine and Science. He has also served on the boards of
numerous dermatological organizations as well as journals, including
American Academy of Dermatology and Journal of Investigative
Dermatology and has served as President of the Society for Investigative
Dermatology, the world's foremost organization devoted to research
into the biology of the skin. Currently, Dr. Epstein serves as
the Research Dermatologist and Clinical Professor of Dermatology
at the University of California, San Francisco and has an active
private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dr.
Tory Hagen, Ph.D.
is co-inventor with Dr. Ames on the patent that Juvenon
has licensed from the University of California, Berkeley, and
co-author with Dr. Ames of Mitochondrial Decay in Aging and
its Consequences to the Cell. Dr. Hagen is Associate Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Principal Investigator
at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR. Previously Dr. Hagen was a Post-doctoral Fellow
and Assistant Specialist Research Scientist in the Department
of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California,
Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry at Emory University.
Dr. Hagen's current research is focused on the degenerative diseases
of aging, mitochondrial decay in aging, and the impact of alpha-lipoic
acid on mitochondrial function.

Dr.
Benjamin Treadwell, Ph.D.
is an independent researcher in biochemistry with a life-long
interest in metabolism and aging. He previously served as an
Associate Professor of biochemistry at Harvard Medical School
and as Director of the Orthopedic Research Laboratory at Massachusetts
General Hospital. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry at New
York University and served as a Research Fellow at the Roche
Institute of Molecular Biology in New Jersey.
Dr. Treadwell's current interest is with designing studies to
help understand the biochemical basis of aging in humans. The focus
of these studies will be to convert the inefficient energy-producing
machinery of the cells in aged humans to those resembling the more
efficient youthful cell. The studies will involve clinical trials
to test the effectiveness of specific natural compounds that are
demonstrated to be deficient in aged tissues, and believed to be
at least partially responsible for the energy deficit characteristic
of the aged cell. These studies will be closely linked to the Ames
and Hagan laboratories where pioneering work with animal and cell
studies has demonstrated various age-related changes in cellular
and organelle structure.
Dr. Treadwell's mission is to further characterize, and analyze
the results obtained from animal and cell studies, with the purpose
of translating those results into a rational design (regimen of
compounds) appropriate for human studies. His goal is to develop
a combination of compounds, or compound cocktail, packaged in a
tablet form that when taken on a regular basis by humans will result
in significant improvement in overall health and quality of life.

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